In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the ...

The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...

On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the world’s first telegraph message, tapping out the biblical phrase “What hath God wrought?” We could consider this moment the dawn of the information age, but ...

A character code invented by Samuel Morse that is represented by the duration of a single tone. Written as dots, dashes and spaces, the first Morse code message was sent in 1844 over a newly ...

In the modern world of smartphones and lightning fast internet, amateur (ham) radio operators still enjoy communicating over the radio by tapping telegraph keys just like the pioneers did in the ...

Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur station ...

The first public demonstration of the electric telegraph, which uses Morse code, was done on Jan. 11, 1838, by inventors Samuel Breese Morse and Alfred Vail. Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day takes ...

A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...